CALL FOR ARTISTS:

CALL FOR ARTISTS: Skinless Capital: Neoliberalism and Resistance
A Collaborative Art Installation

Deadlline for initial proposals: April 8, 2005

SKINLESS CAPITAL will ask how artists and makers can resist neoliberalism’s conflation of economic and cultural values. OPENSOURCE Art and the Unit for Criticism & Interpretive Theory at UIUC seek artists and collaborators for a gallery-wide installation to open on April 30, during the Unit’s international conference, Fetishizing the Free Market: The Cultural Politics of Neoliberalism.

We suggest (but do not require) that work responds to the following modes of resistance, as explained by Jan Nederveen Pieterse in his February 2005 Unit lecture, “Cultural Politics of Neoliberalism: Coding/Decoding/Recoding”:
***Cynicism (e.g., Office Space, My New Filing Technique is Unstoppable)
***Unplugging (“Off the Grid” culture, Luddism)
***Decoding (Adbusters, culture jamming, No Logo)
***Recoding (consumer boycotts, stakeholder society, corporate activism)

The show will transform OPENSOURCE Art’s downtown Champaign gallery into an image-saturated space that conveys the scope, penetration, and limits of neoliberal economics and governmentality. We seek artists working in all media and encourage participants to manipulate our gallery, using its 1500 sq ft floor-space, combination of large and small rooms, and storefront windows to their fullest extent. Submission can exist as autonomous objects or part of a larger immersive installation.

To view our space, stop by any Fri 3-7 & Sat 10-12; or email [email protected] to make alternative arrangements. Floor plans and diagrams of the space will be posted very soon.

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By April 8: Email proposals to [email protected] and include full contact information
April 10: Notification of acceptance
April 17: Local Artist’s Meeting
April 23-25: Work/Installation Days
April 30: Opening Night and Party

FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE VISIT OUR WEBSITE AT http://opensource.boxwith.com/ OR EMAIL [email protected]